Chiral-Symmetry-Violating Effects and Near-Maximal Mixing of Scalar Gluonium and Quark Mesons

Gaussian QCD sum-rules are used to analyze all possible two-point correlation functions of scalar gluonic and quark currents. The independent predictions of the masses and relative coupling strengths from the different correlators are remarkably consistent with a scenario of two scalar states that couple to nearly-maximal mixtures of quark and gluonic currents.